I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood.The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

I'm always praying for a part that would be something that I could be really proud of, in which I could use the gifts God gave me in a positive way.

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

I think that social media can be used for good and for bad.

We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.